Expressing strong displeasure at displaying content related to sex determination by search engines Google, Microsoft and Yahoo, the Supreme Court Tuesday called on the Centre to come up with a memorandum to stop the “abuse”.

“Can these search engines continue to violate the law? Is there nothing that can be done to completely stop them? Google, Microsoft, Yahoo can’t continue doing illegal activity in the name of being an intermediary,” a bench led by Justice Dipak Misra asked Solicitor General Ranjit Kumar.